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UO Winter Teaching FAQs
This page distills policy, resources, and guidance related to teaching in Winter 2021. We will continue to build it as new questions emerge. If you have a question not found here, please send it to us at tep@uoregon.edu. Keep asking! This is how we all learn to teach well during this unprecedented…
Recent UO Survey on Academic Obstacles for Remote Learning
In June 2020, the University of Oregon administered a SERU Survey focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on the student experience. Of surveyed undergraduates, we received 3,859 responses (22.8%). The survey highlights the differential impact of COVID-19 on students’…
Coordinating Teaching Teams
Faculty and graduate student teachers who collaborate across lecture and linked discussion sections and labs face distinct challenges–and also enjoy special opportunities to collaborate and deepen student learning. This page offers questions faculty can use as a guide during first meetings…
Learning Objectives and Backward Design
The gold standard for course design is to begin the process by articulating goals for student learning (learning objectives) and then align the activities, tone, and assignments of the class with them. Educational developers call this process of articulation and alignment “backward design” (Wiggins…